Videos

Andy Ashley of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Mississippi Valley Division, gives an overview of the history of the river science on the Mississippi River.  He also discusses efforts that their Geomorphology and Potamology program is overseeing.

Bryan Piazza discusses The Nature Conservancy’s goals of improving water quality and quantity for biodiversity and people, restoring forests and wetlands to sequester carbon dioxide, protect and provide habitat and make the system more resilient, and ultimately to promote a healthier Gulf of Mexico.

Mayors Strickland, Simmons, and Prince discuss science gaps prevalent to the Mississippi Valley, and indicate where the mayors see the need for scientific study to support better management of the Mississippi River corridor.

EPA’s Katie Flahive of the Hypoxia Task Force coordinating committee explains current tasks and goals of the Hypoxia Task Force in helping to reduce the size of low oxygen zone in the northern Gulf of Mexico.

This video covers the history of the South Florida ecosystem, from the early drainage projects in the 1880s up through current restoration projects designed to reverse the major unintended impacts to this unique ecosystem. All major restoration projects and proposed future projects are covered.

Video Description – October to December 2022 

Video Description – Water Year: October 2021 to September 2022 

After over 2 decades, the USGS Water Resources Mission Area revealed a new Water Cycle Diagram during a virtual release party, Stories of the Water Cycle, held on Thursday, October 13th at 6:30 pm ET. The updated, comprehensive diagram depicts how Earth’s water is stored and moves, both naturally and because of human action.

This is an animation showing the changing conditions relative to the historic daily record of USGS streamgages from July 1, 2022 to September 30, 2022. The river conditions shown range from the driest condition seen at a gage (red open circles) to the wettest (blue closed circles). A purple outer ring around a gage indicates it is flooding.   

The Water Data for the Nation team in USGS's Water Resources Mission Area has modernized our nationwide alert service: WaterAlert. With WaterAlert, you can subscribe to text or email alerts for recent water conditions that matter most to you.

In this video segment, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Lower Mississippi Gulf Water Science Center (LMGWSC) scientists give a detailed description of how the USGS uses Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers, (ADCP) to measure flow along the lower Mississippi River.

00:00 WDFN & Modernization

02:16 History of Legacy WaterAlert

03:26 NextGen WaterAlert

03:45 Transitioning to NextGen

06:43 Become a Usability Tester

07:38 Key Takeaways

10:18 Q&A

This video describes how to use ModelMuse to define the nonspatial data in the Surface-Water routing process of MODFLOW.

This video shows how to use ModelMuse to display results from the Surface-Water Routing Process in MODFLOW.

This video shows how ModelMuse can be used to specify the inputs for WellFootprint, run it, and display the results.

A how-to video describing how to specify SWR reach geometry in ModelMuse software.

This video describes how to define and use “Structures” such as various types of dams in the Surface Water Routing Process in MODFLOW using ModelMuse

This video describes reach connections in the MODFLOW Surface Water Routing process as implemented in ModelMuse.

This video shows how to use “Vertex Values” in ModelMuse to specify vertex numbers. This can be used to ensure that structures are located at the correct locations.

This video describes how to use ModelMuse to define observations in the Surface Water Routing process of MODFLOW.

This how-to video describes how to use SWR tab files in the ModelMuse software.